mone

See also: Mone, móne, and møne

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mone, imone, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English gemāna (“community, company, society, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *gamainô (“community”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *moini- (“common, collective”).

Noun

mone (countable and uncountable, plural mones)

1. (obsolete) Communion; participation; companionship.
2. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
3. (archaic) A companion.

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English monien, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).

Verb

mone (third-person singular simple present mon, present participle ing, simple past and past participle moned)

1. (transitive) To admonish; advise; explain.

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.

Noun

mone (plural mones)

1. Mind; preference.

Anagrams

• Emon, NEMO, Nome, meno-, meon, nemo, nome, omen

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Bavarian

Etymology

From Old High German māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô. Cognate with German Mond, English moon, Icelandic máni, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna).

Noun

mone

1. (Sappada, Sauris) moon

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) monē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of moneō

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mān, from Proto-Germanic *mainō.

Alternative forms

• mon, moone, mane, man, mene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

mone

1. A lamentation
2. A moan, complaint

Descendants

• English: moan
• Scots: muin

Etymology 2

From Old English mōna, in turn from Proto-Germanic *mēnô; this comes from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s. The sense of the word as silver is the result of its astrological association with the planet.

Alternative forms

• moone, mon, moyn, moyne, mona, monæ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːn(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːn(ə)

Noun

mone (plural mones or monen)

1. (astronomy) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens; the Moon.
2. (rare) A white, precious metal; silver.
   • 1500, Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain in Ireland.

     Tak j quarter oz of the sone and di. of the mone purgyd, And mak of both thes sotyl powder lymal.

Synonyms

• lune
• (planet): Lucyna, Diane, Phebe

Descendants

• English: moon
• Scots: muin
• Yola: mond

Derived terms

• monyssh
• monelich
• bente mone
• aboven þe mone
• under þe mone
• in þe croke of þe mone

References

• “mon(e (n.1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

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Volapük

Noun

mone

1. dative singular of mon